Job
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Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the LORD.
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And the LORD said to Satan, "Where do you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."
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Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason."
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But Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
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But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"
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So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life."
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So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.
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Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
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Then his wife said to him, "Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!"
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But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
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When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country - Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
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But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.
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Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
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After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
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Job spoke up and said:
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"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'
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That day - let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
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Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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That night - let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
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Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
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Let those who curse the day curse it - those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
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because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
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"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
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For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
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with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
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Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
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There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
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"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
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who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
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I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me."
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
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Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
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Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
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But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
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Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
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Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
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Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
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In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
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a trembling gripped me - and a terror! - and made all my bones shake.
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Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
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It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:
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"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,
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how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
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